All user reviews of 4/5 for the Boss DD-20 Giga Delay

This is Boss' double pedal delay. It has an LCD display showing the delay settings. I am a gigging guitarist in a country rock band.

I looked at many different delay pedals before purchasing this one. I borrowed a friends for a few weeks before deciding. I paid $180 on eBay.

The various types of delay provide many different tones and effects including a nice tape delay and a well done reverse delay. It also has a dual, analog, pan, smooth, and some crazy ones including, twist, warp, and modulation. The SOS setting which is basically a loop, gives up to 23 seconds of delay. You can layer on it as well. The basic controls; feedback, effect level, tone, and delay time are all very straight forward. The tap tempo is nice and absolutely essential in a live setting. My favorite part about this pedal is it has memory banks to set delay to certain tempos and save your settings so they can be recalled with the stomp of a box.

The more advanced controls are not very user friendly. It takes a bit to change settings like display and output mode. But once you learn the functions they are easy to do.

Its a Boss, so it is built like a tank. I haven't had a lick of trouble with it yet.

This is a great delay pedal, it is much smaller and less expensive than the Line-6 delay and has more features than the comparably priced T.C. electronics Nova Delay.

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11 types of delay, delay time of 23 seconds, New types of stereo delay beinsur all in!

UTILIZATION

The manual is quite prcis the pedals has a great look and it even it is not very complicated but it requires a argler grip, with the faction tap tempo everything becomes much simpler , andmore can BACKUP 4 rglages!

SOUND QUALITY

In terms of quality has nothing to say is very good! Dlais of true-sounding!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it recently but I must say it's a very good pedals that replaces a facilemnt no worries BOSS DD3 remains unchallenged! The price is certainly a little lev but worth it!

# BOSS' most powerful delay pedal with up to 23 seconds of delay
# 11 delay modes including classic tape delay and sound-on-sound recording
# New “Smooth” and “Twist” modes for subtle or radical delay effects
# Memory function for changing delay modes seamlessly
# New push-button knob for setting delay time in fine or coarse adjustments


* E. LEVEL/F. BACK/TONE knobs are set to the center position
Display Custom LCD (with backlit)
Controls ON/OFF Pedal, MEMORY/TAP Pedal, DELAY TIME Knob, E.LEVEL Knob, F. BACK Knob, TONE Knob, MODE Knob, TAP Button, TEMPO Button, MEMORY WRITE Button, MEMORY SELECT Button
Connectors INPUT A (MONO) Jack (1/4 inch phone type)
INPUT B Jack (1/4 inch phone type)
PHONES Jack (stereo 1/4 inch phone type)
CTL PEDAL Jack (1/4 inch phone type)
OUTPUT A (MONO) Jack (1/4 inch phone type)
OUTPUT B Jack (1/4 inch phone type)
AC Adaptor Jack

This is a pretty well thought out digital delay pedal. It's sort of meant to be the all-in-one delay pedal with everything included. Meaning all types of delay effects including a tap tempo as well as 4 banks that you can have your preset delays set to. It also has spillover, so when you turn it off or on you'll hear the left over echo.


UTILIZATION

Not TOO simple to use, since it's a dual pedal it's got quite a few functions so it'll take a little longer to properly figure out. But after a few twists and turns and experimenting, any guitar player should be able to figure out how to work it on a regular basis!

The manual is very necessary to understand all the little things that you might not get from just playing around with it. EG for the presets, you can change the how the lighting pattern is, things like that.

You can run the pedal as a stereo setup or mono setup, it has enough ins and outs for both depending on what kind of rig you have and whatnot.


SOUND QUALITY

I think it sounds great. I've heard this used live and used it live myself and haven't had many problems with it. The LED screen is big and legible, though the brightness could be brighter as I always prefer it to be brighter for live stage use.

Otherwise majority of the delay sounds are quite good. I use the regular digital, analog and tape echo quite a few times. The SOS not so much, it seemed to be more of an afterthought idea to add onto the pedal so it isn't very tweakable.

The tone is generally very crisp and clear, and thus 'digital' however there's also the tone knob available on the unit so you can actually EQ it a bit to make it sound warmer, duller or brighter and even more pristine! How cool is that?





OVERALL OPINION

Overall, great all-in-one delay pedal. Loads of variety, and good sounding overall delay. A lot of thought has been put into this to make this a programmable and usable live pedal as well. There are lots of functions and lots to go through, if you want to get the best out of this I'd definitely recommend skimming through the manual.

It y 'all the above, well almost ... What interested me is being able to juggle its analog / digital, tap tempo foot while being able to make loops and presets.

UTILIZATION

Pretty simple, you just read a little user manual in order to be comfortable with the gear.

SOUND QUALITY

I give a 6 because the sound is not as pure and warm as her little sister DD3, it sounds a bit small for my taste, but the number of possible sounds are interesting and raise the average (Tape mode is my preferred) and so that the continued delay when switching off the effect (inducing that there is no tru bypass).

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a month and I think it's a good alternative if you do not afford separate components such as memory man, a jamman and DD3 for example ...